Albums mostly for me…
and one for the snowflake millennial’s from the jazz boomers 
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Stevie Ray Vaughan-Tin Pan Alley–the bonus track on Texas Flood
Lol
Ok boomerphile…
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Red song by Suuns
Tropocalia by Beck
Pale Green Ghosts by John Grant
Oldie I use every now and then, good “air” good stereo separation and imaging/location and pretty decent dynamic range for pop R&B.
I’ve been using the same test tracks for about a year or so now.
-Hotel California by The Eagles (test all timbre and tonality, guitars and drums)
-BBK by Korn (treble fatigue)
-The Lion The Beast The Beat by Grace Potter and The Nocturnals (female vocals)
-Elevators by Outkast (sub-bass)
-I’ll Be Around by The Spinners (good Motown song to test iffy recordings)
-Better Off Alone by Alice Deejay (female vocals, keyboards)
-Hurricane by Bob Dylan (acoustic guitars)
-Digital Bath by Deftones (distorted guitar, male vocals, percussion)
-Superstar by Carpenters (king of the female vocals test)
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Used to have this “test CD” that i’ve burned on a CDR with a few ripped songs… think the playlist was something like this :
Dire straits - calling elvis
Dire straits - Iron Hand
AC/DC - highway to hell
E-Z Rollers - Walk this land
Lou Reed - Perfect day
Nina Simone - Sinnerman (live in new york)
Curtis Mayfield -move on up
Radiohead - Karma Police
Air - All i need
Portishead - Roads
Reef- Consideration
Most of the songs was chosen due to the fact that i liked them very much and had heard them on various equipment and knew how i liked them to sound.
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Take a look at the Chesky Records catalogue. It has a vast collection of great music with excellent recording quality. Even they have a “Ultimate headphone Demo Disc” featuring the great Steve Guttemberg (The audiophiliac, not the actor) 
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I don’t buy or try new equipment that often, but when I do usually throw this on https://youtu.be/rIMm0swerow
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Didn’t think I was the kind of guy to have a test song, but I do now. Purely for transient response. On a 95x. Holy shit. I don’t care about tonality. Electrostat is THE way to go for speedcore.
Currently, this is my main song for testing on what I currently have. I don’t know man, this songs to be the perfect start to see if the audio you own are like dream-sounding potential.
Novice here, building a small collection of hi-rez tracks above CD quality, CD hard copy, 4k bluray, itunes master audio, streaming media and youtube. Might dip into vinyl in the future but all digital for now.
Home theater geek but im piecing together a entry-level 2.0-2.2 channel to compare against HT gear.
Everything about this- vocals, instrument separation, lows, highs- it all sounds good to me but those vocals…
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I got quite familiar with a particular recording of the 1812 Overture. This CD - https://www.amazon.com/Tchaikovsky-Overture-Capriccio-italien-Excerpts/dp/B08DBXPTDB/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=1812+capriccio+italien+swan+lake&qid=1605691716&sr=8-3
Generally a good test for full orchesta. Full use of frequency range, from the lows of contrabass to the extreme highs of triangle and cymbals. Many voices to test seperation, imaging, timbre. Wide dynamic range. Both subtle and powerful moments in bass frequencies. Subtle and quiet details like breathing, chair squeaks, coughs, page flipping, violin squeaks. Cannons.
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I like a lot of generes so i made my own Test your headphones playlist
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DMS+Abyss’s latest creation:
I’m impressed.
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It was nice and well made, could have been much better also and was wondering. Is there a better source file than just YT.vid.
Wondering was there a touch of humor also.
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Thank you for introducing this amazing artist to me!